IntelliJ IDEA

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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  Linux Installation Instructions
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  1. Unpack the IntelliJ IDEA distribution archive that you downloaded to
     where you wish to install the program. We will refer to this destination
     location as your {installation home} below.

  2. Open a console and cd into "{installation home}/bin" and type:

       ./idea.sh

     to start the application. As a side effect, this will initialize various
     configuration files in the ~/.IdeaIC2016.1 directory.

  3. [OPTIONAL] Add "{installation home}/bin" to your PATH environment
     variable so that you may start IntelliJ IDEA from any directory.

  4. [OPTIONAL] To adjust the value of the JVM heap size, create
      ~/.IdeaIC2016.1/idea.vmoptions (or idea64.vmoptions
      if using a 64-bit JDK), and set the -Xms and -Xms paramters. To see how
      to do this, you can reference the vmoptions file under
      "{installation home}/bin" as a model.

  [OPTIONAL] Changing the location of "config" and "system" directories
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  By default, IntelliJ IDEA stores all your settings under the ~/.IdeaIC2016.1/config
  directory and uses ~/.IdeaIC2016.1/system as a data cache.
  If you want to change these settings,

  1. Open a console and cd into ~/.IdeaIC2016.1/

  2. Create the file "idea.properties" and open it in an editor. Set the
     idea.system.path and/or idea.config.path variables as desired, for
     example:

     idea.system.path=~/custom/system
     idea.config.path=~/custom/config

  3. Note that we recommend to store data cache ("system" directory) on a disk
     with at least 1GB of free space.




Enjoy!

-IntelliJ IDEA Development Team
